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eNathan
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As a preface to my question, I am in no way asserting a FTL posibility which violates the posulates of Special Relativity. Throughout several online articles and books that I have been reading, there has been a referance to some sort of warping of spacetime that allows you to, in their words, "beat a light beam". This involves the warping of spacetime, expressed in an analogy of "cutting a sheet of paper into a cone".
However I still do not 'fully' understand this concept, it is to my knowledge that, according to the book (which was written by a prinston professor), "you can travel through the light cone, beat a beam of light, and come back to Earth and shake hands with yourself." That's not an exact quote, and I can give you more exact references to what was said in the book if you would like.
Originally, I thought that you beat the light beam and hence you were able to merly see yourself take off. But by him asserting that you can shake hands with yourself as you begin to take off, he must be stating that yourself in the past is a physiclly existing entity, and not just light beams that you are seeing.
So which one is it : merly seeing the light photons carrying the information of "you taking off", or physiclly co-existing with your past-self and hence being able to "shake your hand before take off"?
Thanks in advance,
~eNathan
However I still do not 'fully' understand this concept, it is to my knowledge that, according to the book (which was written by a prinston professor), "you can travel through the light cone, beat a beam of light, and come back to Earth and shake hands with yourself." That's not an exact quote, and I can give you more exact references to what was said in the book if you would like.
Originally, I thought that you beat the light beam and hence you were able to merly see yourself take off. But by him asserting that you can shake hands with yourself as you begin to take off, he must be stating that yourself in the past is a physiclly existing entity, and not just light beams that you are seeing.
So which one is it : merly seeing the light photons carrying the information of "you taking off", or physiclly co-existing with your past-self and hence being able to "shake your hand before take off"?
Thanks in advance,
~eNathan
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